Saturday, June 20, 2009

Reader's Digest Worthy?


I grew up reading all of the funnies sections in my parents' Readers Digest magazines. Did anyone else ever do that? They always used to crack me up!! Today I came across a story that sounded like it could be straight from the "All Days Work" section.

So in the NICU where I work, each baby has their own private room with a clear glass door so that the nurses can still see the babies even when the door is shut. There is also a privacy curtain that parents are welcome to pull closed when they are breast feeding or pumping or just wanting alone time. All that said to preface the following:

A NICU dad shared a hilariously awkward situation that occurred in his baby's room yesterday. His baby was born about 8 weeks early and so is far too young to be able to breast feed at this point. So, his wife has been working on pumping so that her milk supply will come in. Now, there are many tactics used to help promote an increased supply of breast milk one of which is to massage the breast tissue. Apparently, yesterday the couple was alone in the room with the baby with the curtain pulled and the husband was trying to help stimulate the "let down" reflux by massaging his wife's breasts (this may sound totally sexual but it definitely was not so in this instance). Well, of course at this exact moment, someone knocked on the door and asked if it was okay to come in. The husband answered yes, thinking it was his baby's nurse needing to come check on the baby (pretty much all privacy is lost when you earn a stay in the NICU). Well, the voice at the door did not belong to his baby's nurse but instead to the chaplain who was coming by to offer the family the Eucharist (my hospital is a Catholic hospital). Wow, I'll bet that poor chaplain sure got an eyeful! The situation was certainly not as it appeared, but man, imagine trying to talk your way out of that one!!?? :o)

1 comment:

  1. hahaha that is too funny! I love it...i hope you are still hanging in there. Love you friend...think of you often.

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